tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696335.post4964287249298566498..comments2020-06-13T03:22:05.789-04:00Comments on The New Skeptic: John Derbyshire Irreligion WatchVernunfthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16652751092085432868noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696335.post-78998914554625738692008-03-29T20:42:00.000-04:002008-03-29T20:42:00.000-04:00Guess physics isn't truth...and I always thought i...Guess physics isn't truth...and I always thought it was. Oh well!Vernunfthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16652751092085432868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696335.post-46899095082740014302008-03-29T12:25:00.000-04:002008-03-29T12:25:00.000-04:00"That the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the ..."That the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the Chief Rabbi, or the Akond of Swat, have anything true to tell me about the world or my place in it, I am unpersuaded. That they have fundamental disagreements with each other about the "unassailable truths" of which they claim custody, doesn't help a bit. If I go to study astronomy, biology, or chemistry in Athens, Benares, or Cairo, I shall learn the same things in the three different places. Students of theology in those places will learn three utterly different things. Truth, it seems to me, ought to be indivisible, not dependent on accidents of geography."<BR/>http://voxday.blogspot.com/2008/03/in-defense-of-irratheism.htmlTGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696335.post-1623016873390790802008-03-27T08:22:00.000-04:002008-03-27T08:22:00.000-04:00He seemed to suggest that an irreconcilable diverg...He seemed to suggest that an irreconcilable divergence of opinion in religion was indicative of its not being about truth at all. To that extent, science would appear not to be about truth either, which is absurd, which was sort of my point.Vernunfthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16652751092085432868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696335.post-43338831044407382532008-03-26T22:47:00.000-04:002008-03-26T22:47:00.000-04:00What? He said science gives us real truths, not th...What? He said science gives us real truths, not that it has accomplished everything.TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696335.post-49851241681872659982008-03-22T12:31:00.000-04:002008-03-22T12:31:00.000-04:00"Sinogynephile":0or maybe it's more like^__^"Sinogynephile"<BR/><BR/>:0<BR/><BR/>or maybe it's more like<BR/><BR/>^__^Nick Milnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15677481833245634421noreply@blogger.com